重新思考间性人干预

Surgeries do more harm than good for those who do not meet binary sex expectations, argues a scholar Amanda Lock Swarr INTERSEX | Since the 1950s, doctors have used geni- tal surgeries, including sterilization, to reduce or remove human body parts that they deem ambigu- ous, grounded in the erroneous belief that early in- terventions provide a preemptive defense against gender confusion. Whereas most discussions of in- tersex have addressed complications and consent with an eye toward reform, Iain Morland marks the urgency for a new approach in In- tersex: A Manifesto Against Medi- calization, issuing a call to “think critically about the irredeemable strangeness of intersex medicine.” …